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IBM Business Integration Adoption Model helps you build flexible IT.
Business flexibility demands flexible IT. One of the keys to flexible IT is integrating applications and processes through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Based on insight gained from numerous SOA engagements, IBM introduced its Business Integration Adoption Model. It frames your integration projects within a larger vision and provides an execution roadmap to help you chart a clear path to meeting your goals. Access the IBM SOA Self Assessment and other resources to learn how this model can help you realize the SOA promise of more flexible IT.
IBM acquires Gluecode Software and offers you an affordable open source infrastructure alternative.
IBM has acquired Gluecode Software, a provider of software and support services for open-source application infrastructure software. Based on core open-source technology from the Apache Geronimo application server, Gluecode's software and related subscription support services provide an affordable infrastructure to organizations that need an alternative to traditional commercial software offerings.
The acquisition allows IBM customers and Business Partners to acquire software from IBM in a new way. Code may be downloaded free-of-charge accompanied by world-class enterprise support purchased on an annual subscription basis. Organizations can tap into the low cost of entry of open-source technology to quickly develop and deploy applications, and migrate to IBM WebSphere® software as business needs expand. Learn more and access a Webcast to see how the acquisition can help your open source development efforts.
Transform your systems management into business-focused services.
It is no longer enough to simply manage IT efficiently. Today, businesses must leverage IT more directly in the service of business goals. This May IBM is unveiling services and software to help you manage change and automate IT service processes. The result is business-focused IT that is more responsive to market forces such as regulatory compliance, shifting customer demands, cost control and more.
Stuck in the middle no more. Updated IBM Express Portfolio helps mid-sized businesses move forward fast.
Growing businesses are often trapped between options cobbled together to be 'just good enough' and expensive, overbuilt alternatives. The IBM Express Portfolio™ frees you with hardware, middleware, printers and services specifically designed to support and grow with mid-sized companies. Updates to the portfolio help you meet your goals—improve customer experience, drive marketplace differentiation, improve productivity and more. This online guide is formatted to show what offerings best match your business needs. Plus, you can get a complete guide to the IBM Express Portfolio and access a Webcast.
Information into action. IBM business intelligence software helps banks make better decisions.
Today's financial operations are deluged by data. The challenge is focusing on the critical data and converting it into information that supports better business decisions. These decisions range from top-level strategies to front-line service interactions. Read this online feature and learn more about the software that is transforming information into action. You will see how a leading bank is using business intelligence solutions to improve sales and service while creating new, customer-centered products.
Are you ready? A new Software Strategies report shows you how to drive more value from your mainframe.
Recent innovations in hardware, z/OS® software and middleware deliver zSeries® performance that rivals, if not surpasses, distributed environments. But the true test is the on demand business environment. This new report from Software Strategies explores the business case for a new platform-readiness strategy. See if you are keeping pace with innovations that can help you meet on demand challenges and drive ever-greater business value from your mainframe investments.
Webcast - Meet the lean, mean green-screen-transformation machine.
Legacy applications are typically locked away from those who could drive the most value from them—your employees, partners and customers. IBM WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services can take these ‘green screens’ to the Web within hours of installation. It is a zero-footprint, zero-download Web-to-host solution. Register and attend the Webcast to discover a powerful tool for boosting productivity, reducing training costs and renewing the value of the dependable applications that drive your business.
Try before you buy. Get the complete IBM software evaluation kit.
Sign up for your complimentary IBM software evaluation kit to receive evaluation products across the IBM software portfolio. The kit is available on DVD for both Windows and Linux operating systems and includes IBM DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli® and WebSphere software products. Many of the products included offer complimentary trial support. It's a great way to start building applications and deploying them on IBM middleware.
Build your skills and your business. IBM Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference, June 27 – July 1, Orlando, Florida.
Attend the IBM Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference and build the skills to extend the power and accessibility of your IBM CICS® and WebSphere MQ software. See how these technologies can leverage Web services to implement a service-oriented architecture and develop a more responsive IT infrastructure. Network with your peers and attend in-depth technical sessions. See new products and technologies. Meet the experts and hear how your peers are improving their businesses with IBM messaging-oriented middleware.
Webcast – Create a highly responsive IT environment through application infrastructure.
According to an IBM study, few CEOs believe their organizations have the ability to respond effectively to change.* Does this sound familiar to the pressure you're getting to ensure your IT environment can adapt to new challenges and opportunities? This Webcast shows you how an application infrastructure from IBM can help you create a more responsive IT environment. Learn the basics about application architecture and integration. Then see how you can improve responsiveness while leveraging the value of your core systems.
IBM Workplace Live! rolls on. The information and resources at one event to boost your productivity.
Attend the IBM Workplace™ Live! events to learn how IBM Workplace solutions can bring information and resources together in one place for greater productivity.
These events, hosted by IBM and IBM Business Partners, will show you how these offerings cut through the complexity of today's user environments to connect people to the tools and resources they need when they need them. Find out how the IBM Workplace environment adapts to users’ roles in business processes. You will experience first-hand the choice and flexibility to help you transact business more efficiently, make better decisions and take targeted actions faster and with greater precision.
The events feature top-level keynote speakers and separate tracks for technical, competitive and business focuses. Learn more about IBM Workplace Live! and register for an event near you.
Introduce your development environment to your business. Get the IBM buyer's guide.
Question for IT executives and project managers: How often do you include the nature and goals of your business in your development tool selection process? If the answer is not often, this buyer's guide from IBM can help. It takes you from requirements analysis to design to quality assurance to deployment, management and beyond. You will learn how to create a development approach that's best suited to your business goals. You can improve ROI and unify your development teams with your business and operations, all while creating and deploying high-quality software assets.
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